History and the making of a modern Hindu self / / Aparna Devare
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| Autore: |
Devare Aparna
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| Titolo: |
History and the making of a modern Hindu self / / Aparna Devare
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| Pubblicazione: | New Delhi : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (251 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 294.5 |
| Soggetto topico: | Hinduism - History |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; History and the Making of a Modern Hindu Self; Copyright; Contents; Glossary; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction: Historicizing the Politics of History; Chapter 2 Exploring the Contours of History and Religion in Colonial India; Chapter 3 Phule: Historicizing Mythology - A Rationalist Critique; Chapter 4 Phule: Where History Meets Its Other; Chapter 5 Ranade: Using a Modern Historical Gaze on India's Past; Chapter 6 Ranade: Dehistoricizing Religion through a Critical Textual (Re) Interpretation and a Faith-based Critique; Chapter 7 Savarkar: History as a Hegemonic World-view |
| Chapter 8 Savarkar: History, Hindutva and Crafting a Modern Hindu IdentityChapter 9 Conclusion: The Limits of History; Bibliography; About the Author; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Taking the contentious debates surrounding historical evidence and history writing between secularists and Hindu nationalists as a starting point, this book seeks to understand the origins of a growing historical consciousness in contemporary India, especially amongst Hindus. The broad question it poses is: Why has 'history' become such an important site of identity, conflict and self-definition amongst modern Hindus, especially when Hinduism is known to have been notoriously impervious to history? As modern ideas regarding notions of history came to India with colonialism, it turn |
| Titolo autorizzato: | History and the making of a modern Hindu self |
| ISBN: | 1-136-19707-9 |
| 0-203-08528-0 | |
| 1-299-45971-4 | |
| 1-136-19708-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910779688903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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